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TheSharklord wrote:*sigh* It'd still be nice if they told us that's where we stood. Some kind of "waitlist" email or something. Those of you who got in (and even us who didn't/still waiting) are amazing candidates, I'm not going to be crushed if it doesn't happen. There are just too many good people. But it'd be nice to have a realistic sense of where things were that wasn't purely conjecture from our end...

Is everyone who didn't get in up for forming our own law firm and farming out internships for ourselves for the summer? =P First 3 people who say yes get to be name partners!

Okay, so so far it's Sharky, Sakura, and Stanford LLP. I'm thinking the last person should have an S beginning name. I'm from near DC so I'm down for at least having one office there, and surely we'll need an NYC one. Anyone want to expand internationally? =P

maybe strong in absolute terms, but i'd want to know how many kids from each school got offers instead of just the number that accepted. also, the number of offers as a percentage of total entering urms would be helpful.

i wouldnt draw too many conclusions from that breakdown.

Plus, adjusting for size, Columbia and Stanford actually did a bit better than NYU.

Do you really think that they had a significant number not accept the offer? Just curious.

As expected, it looks like NYU's large gift to SEO this past year had a big impact. They only had 4 NYU people in last year's class and it skyrocketed all the way to 14 this year--even more than Harvard!

APimpNamedSlickback wrote:wachtell pays first year associates over 300k and its partners over four million dollars

the next firm down pays maybe half as much at each level.

Susman Godfrey, Kellog Huber, and Boies Schiller pay similar salaries once you factor in bonuses (although not to first years in the case of Boies) for anyone interested in firms with big payouts.

somewhat misleading because those are litigation boutiques that generally require years of clerking before one can join as a first year associate. to my knowledge, only wlkr pays that sort of money to people directly out of law school.

Boies doesn't require a clerkship; Susman and Kellog practically do but the reality is that if you have the grades/school combination to get Watchell you have the grades/school combo to get a 1 year district court or COA clerkship ( you don't need multiple). The only reason most of the Wachtell hires don't have a clerkship under their belt is because they didn't want to clerk--- they had the qualifications to clerk but chose not to (also Wachtell is primarily a transactional firm so they don't value clerkships like litigation focused firms like Boies, Susman, Williams and Connoll etc; even though they are just as selective).

Please apply to this program. If you need convincing, please PM me. You would have to have some pretty unique circumstances for this not to be the absolute best thing you can do. I just had to make sure that was said.

I am white/hispanic. Will being white be held against me? I am Hispanic..hispanic is an ethnicity and not a race. One can be of any race and still be Hispanic. In their brochure, they keep referring to students of color. Will I be automatically ruled out because I am not "of color"?

masterthearts wrote:I am white/hispanic. Will being white be held against me? I am Hispanic..hispanic is an ethnicity and not a race. One can be of any race and still be Hispanic. In their brochure, they keep referring to students of color. Will I be automatically ruled out because I am not "of color"?

masterthearts wrote:I am white/hispanic. Will being white be held against me? I am Hispanic..hispanic is an ethnicity and not a race. One can be of any race and still be Hispanic. In their brochure, they keep referring to students of color. Will I be automatically ruled out because I am not "of color"?

Nah. Just cling close to whatever tie you have. SEO is sophisticated enough to understand the diversity within racial groups.